Sentences with phrase «biblical terms such»

Not exact matches

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

Post-biblical Hebrew uses the clinical term ebar (organ / limb) or ebar qatan (small organ / limb) but no such term exists in biblical Hebrew.

Arius agreed to all of the biblical titles and expressions used of Christ's divinity because each one could be interpreted in such a way as to ascribe to him a diminished divinity (which, in biblical terms, could not be a divinity at all).

Such a proposal in no way invalidates the search for doctrinal forms that are consistent with the substance of the biblical revelation; it merely means that their discovery will constitute but a halfway house rather than the journey's destination itself These doctrinal forms will then have to be adapted to and translated in terms of the assumptions and norms of the American situation in such a way that the Word of God is preserved in its integrity but affirmed in its contemporaneSuch a proposal in no way invalidates the search for doctrinal forms that are consistent with the substance of the biblical revelation; it merely means that their discovery will constitute but a halfway house rather than the journey's destination itself These doctrinal forms will then have to be adapted to and translated in terms of the assumptions and norms of the American situation in such a way that the Word of God is preserved in its integrity but affirmed in its contemporanesuch a way that the Word of God is preserved in its integrity but affirmed in its contemporaneity.

Each biblical statement is a sentence which must be understood in terms of the vocabulary and grammar of its original language (Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek), but the better modern translations, such as the Revised Standard Version, have made it possible for one who understands English vocabulary and grammar to read and study the Bible without being seriously misled on most points.

It embraces a fruitful abundance of descriptions of God, including all the substantive terms that can legitimately complete the sentence, «God is...,» beginning with scriptural terms such as Word, Wisdom, Water of Life, Bread from Heaven, Truth, and Comforter, as well as alternative proper names such as El Shaddai and also El Roi» Hagar's name for God, in the only biblical story where a human being gives God a name.

It will be interesting to observe whether Pinnock's move from Regent College, which required its faculty to sign an «inerrancy» statement, to McMaster Divinity College, which has no such stipulation, causes Pinnock to drop the term «inerrant» for something he feels is more appropriate to the Biblical record.

Terms such as fundamentalist, orthodox, biblical Protestant, conservative and evangelical are sometimes used interchangeably, while at other times they express slightly different nuances.

In «Myth and Truth» he maintains that the truth of mythical utterances can be shown only by restating them in nonmythical terms.113 Yet adequately to demythologize Christian myths will require not just any nonmythological language but one, such as process philosophy provides, which can do justice to the biblical view of God.

But even though in the light of Jesus we may not accept a particular biblical command as an adequate disclosure of God's will now, we must not conclude that God did not reveal himself then in just such terms.

5) Human sexuality in Biblical texts is also portrayed in terms of qualities of relationship such as faithfulness, love, obligation, and justice.

Yes, it's a biblical term, but we must also understand why God gives such gifts.

It is not the precision of philology but the politics of rhetoric that controls the choice of terms to describe such phenomena in the biblical text.

But the significance and content of all such views will be defined completely in terms of thinking about them in the view of larger facts of Jesus Christ and the gospel — not primarily by gathering and arranging pieces of scriptural text that seem to be relevant to such topics in order to pinpoint the «biblical view» on them.»

Each sheet contains activities such as defining key terms and taking notes on different parts of the unit and Biblical quotes around the side of the sheet to remind students of including key quotes to support their arguments.